«Always have a dream that lasts longer than a lifetime» Jack Layton —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Reflecting: It has been almost 12 years since the reserve first started the reforestation project. The old stumps still loom within the new forest as if to serve as a Leer más…
Autor: cloudbridgereserve
June/July 2013
«But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.» Alan Watts ________________________________________________________________ Welcome back Holly Mckelvey. Holly is a former Leer más…
May 2013 , Back to the Rainy Season and Tree Planting
Mount Uran covered in cloud. A view from the researcher’s casita. Tree Planting in a Recovering Cloudforest: It’s a Saturday morning and we are packing small seedlings into our backpacks and gathering tools for the trek up the mountain. Even Leer más…
April 2013
April showers bring…..many creatures out. Research and Volunteering We had four presentations this month as people finished up their research and shared their data and experiences. Crissy and her son Daniel’s evening bat collecting resulted in the identification of 8 species. Her presentation included information Leer más…
March 2013
Research Crissy and her son Daniel (Florida, US) are in the midst of a bat survey at Cloudbridge. There has been research done at lower elevations in Costa Rica, but investigations at higher elevations has been limited. It will be interesting to see how Leer más…
February 2013
February Blooms February saw Cloudbridge hosting 15 researchers, volunteers and guests, wow what a month! New Volunteers and Researchers this month: In February Cloudbridge was fortunate to have Bastian and Nuria (Germany) walk into the reserve and volunteer to help. Leer más…
January 2013
Cloudbridge started off the new year with a full house of people volunteering and researching. Katy from Australia and Meghna from the UK are our latest GVI interns and they are continuing with the ongoing biological survey. The survey intends to Leer más…
October 2012
Zenobia Barlow, “Confluence of Streams” «Children are born with a sense of wonder and an affinity for Nature. Properly cultivated, these values can mature into ecological literacy, and eventually into sustainable patterns of living.» This month we celebrate the education Leer más…
August/September 2012
Keep close to Nature’s heart….and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.» John Muir Activities and Research: September was a good month for trail work Leer más…
July 2012
Photo by Rolando Zuniga Salaza What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Volunteers planting oak up Sendero Montana Leer más…